200 students at a local college campus
were asked to choose between chocolate
and vanilla ice cream. 50 of the 200
students chose chocolate. If the college
has a total of 1000 students,
approximately how many students would
prefer chocolate ice cream?
a) 1000
b) 250
c) 50
d) 500

Question

200 students at a local college campus
were asked to choose between chocolate
and vanilla ice cream. 50 of the 200
students chose chocolate. If the college
has a total of 1000 students,
approximately how many students would
prefer chocolate ice cream?
 a) 1000
 b) 250
 c) 50
 d) 500

anonymous · Answer

Okay so I think you do is take 200 and dived that by 1,000 and that means every vote it worth that many people.

anonymous · Answer

no sorry I mean 1000 by 200

mathmale · Answer

Actually, you're calculating the PROBABILITY that one of these students would prefer chocolate ice cream.   What is that (observational) probability?

mathmale · Answer

Is there truly a valid reason to divide 200 by 1000?

anonymous · Answer

???? I have no idea what that means can you explain my method got 250 because after i found out how many people in just one vote you times that by the number of votes and you get 250.

anonymous · Answer

And you divide it by each other because you find out how many people per one vote because the data only tested 200 but there was 1000

anonymous · Answer

So i think the answer is b which is correct i looked at the answer key thanks for trying to help. @mathmale